Danby, Vermont.
Typical home $367,324 (+2.7% in a year). Rutland, VT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,021 (+113%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,521 +3%
- $357,803$367,324 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $42,966 +13%
- $324,358$367,324 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Danby$1,928
- Vermont$2,057
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 28 years.
Typical home values in Danby, VT rose 2.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Danby, Rutland County, Vermont
Danby, in Rutland County, had 200 people in the 2020 census. 89% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 11% are rented. Unemployment in Rutland County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most people in Rutland County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Danby is a very small community in Rutland County, Vermont, where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners. Typical home values are well above what many people might expect for a town this size, and household incomes across the county run below the national picture. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are mild and pleasant, and a good deal of rain and melted snow falls over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, manufacturing, and professional and business services. Across Rutland County, some of the largest workplaces are Rutland Regional Medical Center, Powdr, which runs ski facilities, and the Rutland City School District. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and unemployment across the county is low and has held steady from a year ago.
Things to do. Much of what is close to Danby is outdoors. Emerald Lake State Park and Griffith Lake are both a short drive away, as is Bromley Mountain, a ski area. The West River, a longer drive away, is another place to spend time by the water.
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- 32 mintypical commute
What people in Rutland County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Rutland County had 25,317 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 27° and lows near 8°; warmest in July, with highs near 75° and lows near 56°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Peru weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Rutland County
- Rutland Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,306FTE
- Integrated Manufacturing Rutland1,221
- PowdrAlpine skiing facilities with accommodations858
- Rutland City School DistrictSchool district353FTE
- Slate Valley Unified Union School District #62School district232FTE
- BAYADA Home Health CareHome health care224
- Casella ConstructionBackfilling, construction210
- VelcoElec bulk pwr trans and control200
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 49 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,962 people in all across the county; Danby has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Danby’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Rutland County and the Rutland, VT metro.
Danby home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Danby$367,324
- Vermont$391,900
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Danby8
Zip codes with a Danby address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Danby — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.